The former WNBA star will plead guilty at a sentencing hearing in August. Her sentence is unclear, but a similar case shows one potential outcome.

Legal challenges protect tribal rights to traditional fishing, hunting and gathering.

Indigenous community in Manitoba continues protests over police refusal to search for remains.

Native American people are incarcerated at rates up to seven times higher than white people in the United States.

Chinook people have fought for federal status for close to two centuries. This portrait shows what federal recognition means for the nation’s land base, healthcare, education and legal protections. But, more than anything, tribal members want to be recognized for who they are, and who they have been for millennia.

In 1954, the Western Oregon Indian Termination Act removed federal recognition of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and the tribe spent the next three decades fighting to restore it. Cheryle A. Kennedy, the tribe’s chairwoman, shares her personal experience, as told to Underscore News' Karina Brown, of losing federal status and her support for the Chinook Indian Nation.

The government bulldozed an Indigenous religious site along a busy Oregon highway, but tribal elders and their families still visit Ana Kwna Nchi Nchi Patat in order to satisfy their religious obligations. Now, the elders want the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their claim to restore the site.

The growing power of tribal courts is on full display at the Umatilla Indian Reservation.

Ku Stevens’ great-grandfather escaped an Indian boarding school, repeatedly, by running 50 miles through the desert to get home. Decades later, Ku runs to honor that legacy, and his speed has earned him a spot at his dream school.

An 1855 treaty with the U.S. government ensured one of the Yakama Nation’s most important sites would remain part of its homelands. The tribe recently celebrated the decades-long effort to see that promise kept.

For Native Americans incarcerated at the Washington State Penitentiary, the September event was a highlight of the year that they fought to preserve.